Huntsville gazette., 1887-02-12
DISSATISFIED KNIGHTS.
FEARS OF a. GENERAL STRIKE ALONG
THE ENTIRE READING LINE.

strikers Say That the Agreement is Moth
ing But a Farce-Movements Of District
| Assembly No. 49-Still Holding Out in
Brooklyn-Other Labor Troubles.
| New YORK, Feb. 11-Reports are current
| to the effect that the settlement between the
strikers and the Reading road is not satisfac-
| tory to the men and that they complain that
| Mr.. Corbin has virtually conceded nothing.
| One Of the knights said that the hitch in the
| agreement on which the knights were
| stranded was the clause where the railroad
| president agreed to raise the wages of the
| men at Elizabethtown from twenty to twen-
! ty-two and one-half cents, the same as at
| Port Richmond when work was resumed
at the former place.
so far as know said the speaker, ''this
means nothing, for | do not believe work
will be resumed at Elizabethport.n Several
others gave utterances to the same remarks
quoted above, and the men seemed to feel
that they had been entrapped by the provi-
sions regarding WORK at Elizabethport.
Whether they will break the agreement OF
not remains to be seen.
Mr. Maxwell, the associate of President
Corbin, who was called upon by the United
Press representative with regard to these
utterances, said: IF words mean anything
the Reading trouble IS settled and we now
have the papers signed to show this to be the
case. Mr.. Putnam, one OF the arbitrators OF
behalf of the Knights Of Labor, even told ms
when he left me yesterday that he thought
the Reading troubles were now settled fos
many years"
That the strike is broken so far as the
freight handlers and longshoremen are con
cerned cannot be gainsaid. At many of the
piers the strikers are applying for work and
embracing any opportunity that offers for
unemployment. Goods are being handled at
the various piers, with as much alacrity as
previous to the strike The freight which
accumulated during the first few days of tie
strike is now being rapidly disposed of, all
the piers being well supplied with men.
District Assembly 40, Of the knights Of
Labor have ordered out all the employees of
the breweries in this city, Yonkers, Jersey
City, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Newark and
Paterson, as well as the members of the &c
centric association stationary engineers, en-
ployed in factories at Yonkers, Brooklyn,
and Jersey City and other points within the
of aiding the coal strikers in bringing the
coal companies to terms. The knights be
beve that by this step the demand for coal
will be greatly curtailed and the Coal COM
panies will consequently have to come to
terms.
The stationary engineers, who were ordered
out by District Assembly No. 49, Knights of
Labor are much dissatisfied with the order
and will probably disobey it. They would
willingly have gone out earlier in the strike
but they consider the fight over now. The
beer brewers, who were also ordered to go
out, will not 60 out. Most of them are under
pledge to serve a year without causing their
employers trouble. This pledge was made in
consideration of wage concessions and they
do not feel Like breaking faith. The ale
brewers may go out as they are not so we'll
organized, and are not under the same pledge
They number about 2, 500 and their stopping
work would effect sixty breweries and cause
a loss Of 800 900 on unfinished goods